Title: On power analysis attacks against hardware stream ciphers

Authors: Rangana De Silva; Iranga Navaratna; Malitha Kumarasiri; Janaka Alawatugoda; Chuah Chai Wen

Addresses: Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka ' Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka ' Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka ' Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka ' Information Security Interest Group (ISIG), University Tun Hussein On Malaysia (UTHM), Malaysia

Abstract: Power analysis attacks are a type of attack which measures and analyses the power consumption of electronic circuits to extract secret information, particularly the secret encryption key. These attacks have become a huge threat for embedded systems, in which the security depends on the secret encryption key for the ciphers. Hence, many researchers try to find vulnerabilities of cryptosystems against power analysis attacks, so that they can develop countermeasures to ensure the security of such systems. In this paper, we review some of the recent power analysis attacks on modern hardware stream ciphers such as Trivium, Grain and MICKEY.

Keywords: differential power analysis; correlation power analysis; simple power analysis; power analysis attack; stream cipher; Trivium; Grain; MICKEY.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICS.2022.121289

International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 2022 Vol.17 No.1/2, pp.21 - 35

Received: 10 Jul 2018
Accepted: 21 Jan 2019
Published online: 04 Mar 2022 *

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